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Comment by andrewinardeer

9 days ago

The US government was funding Afghan farmers to grow 'crops'. I'm fairly sure that wasn't cotton.

in Seeds Of Terror by Gretchen Peters points out those subsidies helped farmers NOT farm opium for the Taliban. If you think of it from an Afghani farmer's perspective: why would you farm any other crop that pays significantly less per yield when you have a family to feed?